US192729A - Improvement in corsets - Google Patents

Description

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JOSEPH; BALE AND LOU-IS GOLDBERG, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

.IMPROVEMENT IN CORSETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,729, dated July 3, 1877 application filed J 11116 12, 1877 patented inE11g1and,.February 21, 1877, for fourteen years.

To all whom it may concern:

Be, it known that we, J OSEPH BALE, of No. 52 Aldermanbury, and LOUIS GOLDBERG, of No. 9 Love Lane, both in the city of London, England, have invented an Improved Construction. of Corsets, Stays, and Bodices; and do hereby declare that the following description, taken in connection with the accompany ing drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a fullandexact specification of the same, wherein we have set forth the nature and principles. of our said improvement, by whichour inven-.

wearer is greatly improved in appearance, as the corset approximates more nearly to the natural shape, while at the same time it is worn with greater comfort, and without subjecting the wearer to the pressure on the breast experienced by the use of corsets of present construction. I

Our invention consists in providing a corset with a band of webbing or other stout material, placed at such a height as to be fastened round the chest immediately under the breastpieces and across the lower. part of the breast of the wearer.

By means of this band the wearer is enabled to raise the breast, so that, while it is comfortably supported thereby, it presents a much fuller appearance above the corset. than would otherwise be the case.

With the supporting-band are combined regulating-flaps, all which will be fully hereinafter described in detail.

The accompanying drawings show a corset constructed according to our before-described invention.

Figure 1 shows a front view of the corset.

Fig. 2 shows a plan, and Fig. 3 shows an inside, view of the corset opened out.

The breast-pieces A A increase gradually 'in fullness toabout the point X X, beyond which they decrease in fullness again to the top edge, thus presenting a convex, rounded,

- or cup-shaped form, as shown, thus approximating very closely to the figure of the wearer, against whose breast the upper edge fits. These breast pieces are stiffened, first, by vertical ribs B of whalebone, steel, or other substance affording the requisite stiffness and elasticity and, secondly, by other similar ribs (3-,arranged transversely across the breast, such ribsbeing made with a permanent curvature conforming to that of the breastpiece; or in place of such two sets of ribs, only the one or the other may be employed, or the requisite stiffness, may be imparted without ribs by making the breast-pieces of a sufliciently stifl fabric, or of two or more thicknesses of fabric sewed or quilted together, or by a lining or padding of sufficient thickness; also, instead of raising the tops of the breast-pieces above the top edge of the other part of the corset, as shown, they may stop short at the level of 'such edge, while retaining the convex form described. To each side of the breast-pieces, on the inner side thereof, is fixed a regulatingflap, D, the free edges of which flaps have eyelet-holes, through which are passed laces, as shown, by means of which the flaps may be drawn together to any required extent, thus tying together the two sides of the rounded breast-piece, adjusting it to the figure of the wearer, and efiectually retaining it in its convex form, and preventing it from being flattened by pressure. Fig. 2 shows the two flaps drawn close together, as would be the case with a person having a very small breast, while at Fig. 3 the laces are shown loosened sufficiently to allow the breast of the wearer to enter and fill out the cavity of the breastpiece to any required extent.

The flaps may either be laced the whole way up, as shown, or they may be only partly laced, leaving the upper part open, if desired.

The said pads may be either of any thin soft fabric, or they may be wadded and quilted. As before stated, such pads might consist of a single piece of fabric, which may or may not be elastic, extending from side to side of the breast-piece, so as to act as a cross-tie.

E is the supporting bandor belt, passed through loops on the inside of the stays, so as to maintain it in a position corresponding with the lower part of the breast of the wearer, which may thus be raised and supported thereby, as previously described. It may be conveniently secured in front by a buckle, as shown, or by any other fastening. This belt may also serve to tighten in the waist of the wearer, and two or more sets of loops may be provided on the corset for holding the belt at any height that may be most convenient to the wearer.

Although we have shownand described our several improvements in combination, yet we wish it to be understood that any one or two of them may be employed separate and apart from the others. Thus corsets, stays, or bodices, according to our invention, may be constructed with or without the spherical breastpieces; or a corset of ordinary construction, as regards the breast-gores, may, according to our invention, be provided with the beforedescribed adjusting-pads, or the supportingbelt, or both.

Corsets, stays, or bodices, constructed according to our invention, may be of any form and material, and may or may not be provided with arm-holes 0r shoulderstraps. They may also, if desired, be padded more or less under the arms; and, instead of forming a complete corset, stay, or bodice of the usual construction, they may extend only partially round the body.

shaped breast-gorcs A, in combination with the regulating-flaps D and supporting-band E, substantially as herein described.

2. In corsets, stays, or bodices, the supporting-band E, arranged to operate substantially as and for the purposes herein described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses this 31st day of May, 1877.

JOSEPH BALE. LOUIS GOLDBERG.

Witnesses:

FREDK. TAYLOR, Q

20 Southampton Bldgs., London, W. 0., JOHN DEAN,

l7 Gmoachwch street, London, E. 0.

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